Turn Thunderbird into the Ultimate Gmail IMAP Client

If IMAP's got you curious but you're not sure what desktop application to use with Gmail, consider the extensible, fast, cross-platform and free Mozilla Thunderbird, our beloved Firefox's little sibling. Here's how to get the full Gmail experience in Thunderbird with IMAP.

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Transmission 0.90 Released!

After only a short while, we are please to release version 0.90 of the Transmission BitTorrent client. This new version includes encryption, and much more!

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How-to: Properly setup Gmail IMAP for the iPhone & Apple Mail

Following the recommended settings provided by Gmail will get you basic IMAP support, but the settings will not sync your Sent Mail, Drafts, Trash, or Junk properly. Here are the basic settings to ensure that your email clients don't create unnecessary Gmail labels during synchronization.

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How Mac OS X Leopard Will Improve Your Security

With the release last week of the feature list for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the security world is buzzing about some extremely important updates that should, if they work as expected, significantly improve Mac security and will make me less nervous about connecting to wireless networks in Internet cafes.

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If you spent $399 on AAPL instead of an iPod in 2001, it'd be worth $10,000

Even if you waited until April 2007 to buy, you're up about $100 per share. Happy Birthday iPod.

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Apple OS X Leopard: First Hour Impressions

Stepping through OS X Leopard's final build for the first time, and giving impressions. What do you guys want to know?

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AT&T paying Apple $18 per iPhone, per month

Over the life of a two-year contract, AT&T is paying Apple more per iPhone than it now costs to actually buy one, according to a financial analyst.

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The OSX Spinning Wheel - Track How Much #$#&%^! Time It Has Wasted

It goes by many names: The Spinning Beachball of Death. The Marble of Doom. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. But our time of dread is over. The days of living in fear have come to an end. Today is the day we strike back...

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Getting your Mac ready for OS X 10.5

Over time, most computers accumulate clutter, including outdated software, forgotten downloads, and files you no longer need. Not only can this clutter slow down your Mac and make it harder to find things, it can cause problems when you perform a major upgrade—incompatibilities may show up, or you may run out of disk space, for example.

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Apple goes to the office: a review of iWork '08

With the latest version of iWork, Apple has added a spreadsheet to its word processor and presentation software combo. Ars dives into iWork '08 to see if it's enough to tide over Mac users waiting for an Intel-native Office—or even keep them from upgrading.

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Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Dock 1.6

A great look at the Dock coming soon in OSX Leopard, with a look at the Dock's origins as well.

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Sweet business card trick

learn how to impress your fellow workers

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How DSL Works

When you connect to the Internet, you might connect through a regular modem, through a local-area network connection in your office, through a cable modem or through a digital subscriber line (DSL) connection. DSL is a very high-speed connection that uses the same wires as a regular telephone line.

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Jammie Thomas Accepting Paypal Donations. Fight the RIAA!

You can send donations directly to Jammie Thomas, sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for alleged music pirating and illegal sharing of songs. She was fined $220,000. She is a 30-year-old single mom from Brainerd, MN with an annual income of $36,000. The internet got her into this, the internet can get her out!

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Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Finder 10.5

The Finder in Mac OS X has long been reviled as the most glaring problem in the system, earning it the "Fix the F-ing Finder" meme. Apple has significantly updated the Finder for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, introducing some things old, some things new, some things borrowed, and, well, the icon is still blue. Here's a look at what's new.

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10 Most Brilliant Inventions of 2007

R&D Magazine has sponsored the "Oscars of Inventions" for 45 years. These research and design awards are coveted by government as well as private industry inventors. The 100 winners selected by R&D Magazine for 2007 are stunning innovations - resourceful, effective, inspiring.

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10 Steps Using Which Even a Lazy Person Can Be a Millionaire

You be lazy? You got patience? You be millionaire :)

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30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of

In this article we present 30 important usability issues, terms, rules and principles which are usually forgotten, ignored or misunderstood.

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7 Ways to Boost Your Mood

I really needed to read this today before I punched the idiot that works next to me in his fat face....

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How to: Double Your Salary (without a Second Job)

Somewhere a guy just like you is doing a job just like yours and earning twice the money. Here's how you can be that guy.

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Fluxbox-1.0 released!

Finally after almost four and a half years with 0.9.x release we got to 1.0.0!This release includes a lot of bugfixes, new styles

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The Open-Source iPhone Alternative, OpenMoko for Consumers

Choosing to purchase an iPhone will not only cost you a premium on initial price (though now substantially less than on release) but also a $20 per month price increase on any given plan. AT&T and Apple’s decision to not only lock the phone but also actively discourage users from unlocking has led me to: The OpenMoko

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Ranking the best(and worst) places to live: Finland is the world's greenest

Reader's Digest researched the world's greenest countries and the worst places to live.Finland is the best country for living, followed by Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Austria.USA was 23rd on the list of 141 countries, Britain 25th and China 84th. Nations at the bottom of the ranking were all African.

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Valve wanted $1m Apple to port Half Life to OS X!

In a recent interview, Valve’s Gabe Newell spoke about Valves lack of support for Apple’s OS X platform. Newell confirmed that Valve were in talks with Apple, but said that nothing more happened because Apple couldn’t stay focused.However, there’s another side of that story. According to Inside Mac Games, Apple did talk to Valve, but V[...]

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ZFS in Leopard and future Mac OS X

Sun Microsystems' relatively new ZFS filesystem will see rudimentary support under the soon-to-be released Mac OS X Leopard, but will eventually play a much larger role in future versions of the Apple operating system, AppleInsider has been told.

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YouTube Spam Panic Emerging; Why Don't All Networks Have Spam Control?

Google's video sharing site still hasn't instituted as much as a captcha requirement in order to send a message through its service, something that even MySpace did only last week.

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